progressive aspect in a sentence
Examples
- By the late 1960s, the progressive aspects of the school had all but vanished ( Royston Lambert speech at Exeter University 19 November 1971 ) and it had become a standard independent academic school.
- This example is useful for showing English speakers the difference between continuous and progressive because " wearing " in English never conveys the progressive aspect ( instead " putting on " must be used ).
- Borknagar released a lighter album, " Origin ", which is " an acoustic effort based entirely on the epic and progressive aspect of the band ", according to �ystein G . Brun's statement on blabbermouth . net.
- With oli the band was not able to experiment musically as his sensibility was more of a festival singer, as his stage movements and vocal style did not fit in the progressive aspect of the band's career.
- In many creoles the future can be indicated with the progressive aspect, analogous to the English " I'm seeing him tomorrow . " In general creoles tend to put less emphasis on marking tense than on marking aspect.
- Unlike Cantonese, Mandarin does not have a verb suffix for expressing the progressive aspect, but it can use the pre-verbal auxiliary " zh�ngz�i " ( or just ), similar to how Cantonese uses in front of the verb.
- One hypothesis regarding the origin of the development of the English progressive aspect was the Old English construction that used a form of beon / wesan ( to be / to become ) with a present participle (-ende ).
- I used to think the difference between aspect and tense was that aspect is constructed with multiple words and tense is constructed with a single word ( example : present tense : I go; progressive aspect : I am going ).
- The continuous or progressive aspect, which is formed with the " te form " followed by the auxiliary D0? " iru " in standard Japanese, follows a similar development in most Kagoshima dialects, using the auxiliary verb J0? " oru " instead.
- Such verbs are more commonly said to be in the continuous or progressive tense . ( Since the tense of a verb strictly concerns the " time " of the action, some linguists prefer to say that these verbs show continuous or progressive aspect .)